Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Nougaret

Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Nougaret (16 December 1742, La Rochelle – 27 June 1823, Paris) was an 18th–19th-century French man of letters. He is the author of over one hundred forty volumes covering the most diverse subjects and in all genres: serious and facetious poems, dramas, parodies, historical compilations, political writings, collections of anas, epistolary novels, novels, memoirs. He is best known for his involvement with Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, whom he met on his arrival in Paris in 1766.

He died 27 June 1823 in Paris, at 4 rue d'Assas, aged eighty..

Works

Among the multitude of works of this prolific poet, novelist, playwright, moralist and above all author of licentious books are:

*written between 1758 and 1763: ''La famille en désordre'', parody of '' Le Père de famille'' by Denis Diderot
*1763–1766: ''Lucette ou les Progrès du libertinage'', novel (Paris, 6 vol. in-18°)
*1765: ''La Capucinade'', very licenciouos novel, in-12°)
*1769: ''Ainsi va le monde, ou les jolis péchés d’une marchande de mode'', novel (Paris, in-12°, several reprints.)
*1769: ''De l'art du théâtre en général'' (2 vol. in-12°)
*1771: ''les Mille et une Folies'', tales (Paris, 4 vol. in-12°)
*1773: ''Almanach forain, ou les différens Spectacles des Boulevards et des Foires de Paris'' 1773
*1775: ''Les Astuces de Paris, anecdotes parisiennes''
*1777: ''Le Vidangeur sensible'', three-act drama
*1777: ''La Paysanne pervertie, ou Mœurs des grandes villes''
*1777: ''Suzette et Perrin ou les Dangers du libertinage''
*1779: ''Les Faiblesses d'une jolie femme''
*1779: ''Éloge de Voltaire'', poem
*1781: ''Les Sottises et les Folies parisiennes''
*1785: ''Les Dangers de la sympathie : Lettres de Henriette de Belval, au Baron de Luzi, & de différentes personnes qui ont eu part aux principaux évènemens de sa vie''
*1787: ''Historiettes du jour, ou Paris tel qu'il est''
*1776–1791: ''Anecdotes du règne de Louis XVI'', 6 vol. in-12°)
*1797: ''Histoire des prisons de Paris et des départements'', 4. vol. in-12°)
*1802: ''Sémiramis'', tragédie lyrique in three acts
*1802: ''les Mœurs du temps, ou Mémoires de Rosalie de Terval'', novel, 4 vol. in-12°)
*1807: ''Histoire du donjon et du château de Vincennes'', 3 vol. in-8°
*1808: ''Anecdotes militaires de tous les peuples'', 4 vol, in-8°)
*1810: ''les Enfants célèbres'', 2 vol. in-12°)
*1811: ''Beautés de l’histoire d’Angleterre'', in-12°), ''d’Allemagne'' 1812, in-12°), ''de Pologne'' 1814, in-12°), ''d’Espagne'' 1814°, in-12°), ''de Suède'' (1817), ''de Paris'' (1820, in-12°), ''du règne des Bourbons'' (1822, in-12°), ''de l’Histoire ecclésiastique'' 1822, in-12°), ''de l'histoire des États-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale''1824, etc.

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References

External links

List of his works
on Gallica

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nougaret, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste
18th-century French male writers
18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French erotica writers
18th-century French poets
19th-century French poets
Denis Diderot
People from La Rochelle
1742 births
1823 deaths